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Zambia Open Community Schools New Job Vacancy: Project Coordinator

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  • Company: Zambia Open Community Schools
  • Location: Lusaka, Lusaka Province, Zambia
  • State: Lusaka
  • Job type: Full-Time
  • Job category: Administrative/Secretarial Jobs in Zambia

Zambia Open Community Schools (ZOCS) exists to enable the OVC in Zambia, especially the girl child and children with special educational needs, to access quality education. ZOCS hopes to achieve this through Advocacy, Capacity Building and support to community schools through Service Delivery, mainstreaming the cross-cutting issues of gender, HIV and AIDS and disability, as well as learning-based monitoring and evaluation of its interventions. ZOCS seeks to recruit a qualified candidate who is motivated and result oriented to fill the following position:

 

Provide quality assurance to ZOCS’ education-focused work on the project to ensure there is improvement and effective school governance systems that will promote inclusion, learner performance and learner support for girls and boys. Provide advice to the Programme Manager and Executive Director on changes to the external environment and give strategic guidance for ZOCS’ programming.

Roles and Responsibilities

  • Ensure ZOCS education programme is of the highest quality and adapted to latest national and international developments in relation to community schools and child rights
  • Inform ZOCS Programme Manager and Executive Director of latest developments and provide advice on strategic directions for programmes and organisation as a whole
  • Encourage innovative and out of the box thinking when planning projects and writing proposals
  • Provide backstopping and technical assistance to ZOCS staff in the day to day running of education projects
  • Ensure regular monitoring of projects and schools (coordinate monitoring schedule with Programme Manager and Monitoring and Evaluation Manager).
  • Coordinate relevant teacher meetings, conferences and seminars
  • Ensure the production of high-quality field reports that inform project direction and implementation.
  • In collaboration with Program Manager, ensure the timely submission of high-quality donor reports.
  • Lobby government and other relevant authorities for more support to community schools and OVC-friendly policies and practices, with a focus on the girl child and children with disabilities.

 

Qualifications

  • University degree or Advanced Diploma in Education or any other related field such as Project Management

Skills/Experience

  • Minimum 3 years of experience in a similar role with advisory responsibilities essential
  • Previous staff supervision experience essential
  • Programme Management experience desirable
  • NGO experience desirable
  • Donor liaison experience desirable

 

How to Apply

Interested candidates should send their application with detailed updated Curriculum Vitae to the link below not later than Friday, 22nd February, 2018. Note that at this stage you are not required to attach copies of credentials.

[email protected]

Or

The Executive Director Zambia Open Community Schools P.O Box 50429 No. 20 Tito RoadRhodespark Lusaka